Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-31
• Mått: 170 x 244 x 24 mm
• Vikt: 848 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Antal sidor: 360
• Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
• ISBN: 9781399551373

• Litteraturvetenskap
• Litteraturvetenskap

Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon is Professor of British Literature at Aix-Marseille Université (AMU). Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Scottish fiction. She is the author of The Space of Fiction: Voices from Scotland in a Post-devolution Age (2015), Alasdair Gray: Marges et Effets de Miroirs (2004) and has contributed a chapter to Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds, ed. Camille Manfredi (2014). She is also the editor of Women and Scotland: Literature, Culture, Politics (2020) and, with Camille Manfredi and Scott Hames, of Scottish Writing after the Devolution: Edges of the New (2022). Camille Manfredi is Professor of Scottish literature at the University of Western Brittany. She is the author of Alasdair Gray: le faiseur d’Ecosse (2012) and Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art (2019), editor of Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds (2014), and co-editor, with Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon and Scott Hames, of Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New (2022). Kirsten Stirling is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Scottish literature and early modern poetry. She is the author of Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text (2008), Peter Pan’s Shadows in the Literary Imagination (2012) and Picturing Divinity in John Donne’s Writings (2024) as well as several edited collections.

This collection of essays pays full tribute to Alasdair Gray as one of Scotland’s most important creative forces. Bringing together sharp critical analyses of his writing, thoughtful interpretations of his visual works, new readings of his politics, and the voices of those who worked with him, it maps the interactions of text, images and ideas that characterised a career of inimitable productivity. By structuring the volume around his engagement with politics and community, his collaborations, and adaptions of his work, the editors highlight the importance of Gray’s literary and political interventions, his intellectual generosity, and the nature of his influence on the arts in Scotland and beyond. These ‘likely and unlikely’ stories are underpinned by substantial archival research and brilliantly supported by illustrations illuminating both his life and his importance as a visual artist. The collection offers new perspectives on Gray’s biography, his working practices, and his impact not only on other writers and artists but on a country shaping a sense of itself. In the process the book remains faithful to the unique combination of lively mischief and intellectual commitment that made Alasdair Gray an imaginative iconoclast of international importance.

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